Amusement and advertising device



Sept. 6, 19 32.

B. R. WRIGHT 1,876,481

AMUSEMENT AND ADVERTISING DEVICE Filed Dec. 4. 1951 INVENTOR.

A TTORNEYS Patented Sept. 6, 1932 UNITED STATES.

BERTRAND R. WRIGHT, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK AMUSEMENT AND ADVERTISING DEVICE Application filed. December 4, 1931. Serial No. 579,007.

' This invention has for its object an amusehad to the accompanying drawing in which like characters designate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a plan view of this device. 7

Figure 2 is a sectional view on line 22, Figure-1. I

1 designates a roller, 2 and 3 tapes winding in opposite directions on the roller andzextending in opposite directions therefrom, so

that if a pulling force is temporarily applied to the tapes when the tape 2 is wound on the roller, the tape 3 being then unwound, the roller will be rotated and roll over and wind up the tapes 3, unwinding the tape 2, and then when a pulling force is again applied to the tapes, the tape 3 will roll the roller in the opposite direction, unwinding the tape 3 and winding up the tape 2. By intermittently applying pulling force to the tapes, the operation can be kept up indefinitely. The tape wound on the roller makes that/portion of larger diameter than the portion from. which the other tape is unwound and hence, the roller is set in operation by the pull'on the portion of larger diameter and when 7 the roller is in motion, it will continue to roll under its fly wheel momentum after the two portions on which the tapes wind become of equal diameter, and will wind upthe other tape, so that the portion of the roller on which that tape is wound becomes of larger 7 diameter. 'The pulling force is only exerted the groove in which the tape 2 winds.

temporarily, that is, from the time of the start of the roller to the time when the two portions of the roller are of equal diameter. Thereafter, the roller travels the rest ofthe way .underits own momentum and is then reversed by another temporary pulling force. ,By holding the device with .the tapes at an incline, pulling on the tapes will roll the PAT-Eur .oFF'Ics g roller upward and the roller will roll down I by gravity. I

Means is provided for equalizing the draft of the tapes 2, 3 on the roller so that the line of force extends centrally of the roller to' prevent undue wobbling of the roller, so that the tapes will wind evenly thereon. As' here shown, the roller is formed with grooves in which the tape winds, the tapef2 being a single tape winding on the central part of the roller and having a handle or ring 4 at a pair of tapes winding in grooves on the end portions of the roller on opposite sides of The means for equalizing the draft of the tapes 2, 3 on the roller is here shown as a handle 5- connecting the outer ends of the pair of tapes 3, this handle being located in line with the tape 2 or the space between the pair of tapes 3. v

The tapes may be provided with advertising or pictorial matter which is displayed when the tapes are unwound. Also, the

roller is provided with heads 6 at its ends which balance the roller and cooperate with the draft equalizing means to keep the roller from undue wobbling. Obviously, one ,or the other of the tapes 2, 3 will be wound on the roller and upon pulling ofthe tapes, the roller will roll along one tape and unwindit and roll along the other tape and wind it u What I claim is: r In a device of the class described, the combination of a roller, a'tape winding on the roller centrally thereof, a pair of tapes winding on the end portions of the roller on its outer end. The tape 3 is a double tape or' Opposite sides of the first tape and in the opposite direction from the first tape, the pair of tapes extending from the roller in the opposite direction from that of the first 5 tape, handles at the outer ends of the tapes, the handle for the pair of tapes being located in a plane extending between the pair of tapes and thereby serving as an equalizer.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto 19 signed my name, at Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, and State of New York, this 1st day of December, 1931.

BERTRAND R. WRIGHT. 

